A pictorial album of Bagnall standard gauge locomotives.Baker, A C, & Civil, T D A.Very large, 106 pages, album, hard back. **Introduced by a 6-page history of the firm, this is a collection of photographs of their engines accompanied by lengthy descriptive captions. A soft back edition is also available.

Price:
£21.95

Bagnall Locomotives.
Ref: P1027

A pictorial album of Bagnall standard gauge locomotives.Baker, A C, & Civil, T D A.Very large, 106 pages, album, soft back. **Introduced by a 6-page history of the firm, this is a collection of photographs of their engines accompanied by lengthy descriptive captions. A hard back edition is also available.

A railwayman's album.Hardy, R H N.Medium, squarish, 160 page album, with quite a lot of narrative text between the pictures, pictorial paper-covered boards with cloth backstrip. **Photos taken by Dick "Steam In The Blood" Hardy, throughout his long and distinguished railway career, together with other pictures (quite a few interesting poster images, which add colour to the pages). Nicely produced, and a pleasure to read.

On old picture postcards. A second selection of picture postcards featuring scenes during the past century, with informative captions.Croft.Medium, 36 pages, album, soft back.

Price:
£3.95

Liverpool Street To Chingford. (London Suburban Railways.)
Ref: P0840

Connor.Medium, 96-page album, glazed boards.

Price:
£18.95

LNER Locomotives In Colour 1936 - 1948.
Ref: P0816

White & Johnston.Medium landscape, 80 page colour album, glazed boards. **Previously unpublished photographs. Of course the quality of these photographs is variable and the coverage uneven but it is astonishing that so much has survived. Out of print - last copy.

Price:
£14.99

Lost Lines: East Anglia.
Ref: P3241

Welbourn.Large, 128 pages, pictorial, soft back. **A follow up and companion volume to the author's Lost Lines : Eastern with information and photographs of 30 routes not covered there.

Price:
£18.00

The Memory Lingers On.
Ref: P3270

More British Railways working steam.Esau.Very large, 128 page album, hard back. **First-rate pictures, mostly one or two to a page. Includes an eight-page colour section.

Price:
£30.00

Midland Steam Journey Volume Two.
Ref: P3075

Conway.Medium, 154 page album, photos, map, hard back. **Album of the author's photographs, based on an imaginary London Midland Region journey from Crewe to Carlisle.

Price:
£19.99

Narrow Gauge Lines Of The British Isles.
Ref: P3347

Johnson, P.Very large, 160 page album, some colour, glazed boards. **A handsome photo album with a historical introduction and apposite essays heading each chapter; these are on parliamentary railways, light railways, industrial railways and tourist railways. Ireland and the Isle of Man have their own chapter. As may be expected Peter Johnson's choice of photographs is excellent.

Price:
£25.00

Taken By Trains.
Ref: P1789

The life and photographs of William Nash, 1909 - 1952.Robinson, K & Forsythe, R.Medium landscape, 192 pages, soft back. **Second volume of Nash's photographic collection, presented with much background biographical material. Views, mostly of locomotives and trains, are taken around the country between the wars; there are also some European pictures. Nash lost his life in the Harrow rail crash in 1952. X78.

Price:
£13.95

Great Western Steam 1934-1949.
Ref: P3516

The Norman Lockett Archive.Arlett & Lockett.Very large, 160 page album, glazed boards. ** Fine large photographs, one or two to a page, carefully researched and captioned and with brief chapter notes.

Price:
£22.50

Western Region Steam 1950-1965.
Ref: P2870

The Norman Lockett Archive.Arlett & Lockett.Very large, 192 page album, glazed boards. ** Fine large photographs, one or two to a page, carefully researched and captioned and with brief chapter notes.

The railway photography of Trevor Owen.Chancellor.Very large, 144 page colour album, glazed boards. ** Trevor Owen started taking colour photographs in the 1950s and was a masterly photographer. This superb collection of his steam photography show locomotives in yards, sheds, locomotive works and on workings up and down the country from the lineside and from a distance (he specialised in heights) - unusually he was able to achieve a wide view without the train becoming an insignificant smudge in the landscape.

A selection from the railway photographs of Nigel Payton.Fell & Hennessey, eds.Medium, 30 pages, soft back. **A railwayman. His photos were taken between the 1920s and the early 1950s.

Price:
£3.00

Point And Shoot Volume Two Locomotives At Work.
Ref: P2885

A railway photographic memoir.Reading.Medium, unpaginated, album, soft back. **A few pages of personal notes are followed by 364 photos of locomotives (mostly steam) at work. Mostly two pictures per page, so about 160 pages. The pictures are mainly on the Southern and Western regions with a foray into the LM and taken over a four year period from 1961. Good pictures, anyway.

London & North Western Railway, Great Western Railway, Great Northern Railway and other companies.Patrick.Very large, 96 page photo album, soft back. **Pilcher (1866-1935), a scholar and musician, was possibly the first photographer of moving trains. The earliest picture here is from the 1880s and features a Stirling single at Boston, the final ones show Princesses taking water at Whitmore troughs.

Price:
£9.95

Railways In Bedfordshire.
Ref: P1311

On old picture postcards.ChrystalMedium, 36 pages, album, soft back. *"A selection of picture postcards featuring scenes from the last century, with informative captions."

A photographic record at the very end of Southern Region steam.Shepherd.Large landscape, 96-page colour album, glazed boards. **Atmospheric photographs taken by the artist David Shepherd to record details for his paintings. Mostly these were taken in 1967; a second volume, of 1968 photos is in preparation.

Price:
£19.95

British Rail Northern Scene.
Ref: P2224

A 1970s railway albumSparks, A.Large, 154-page album with brief essays, hard back. **The seventies in grimy monochrome, very nostalgic. Suddenly they seem a very long time ago.

Bambery (compiler).Very large, 128 page colour album, hard back. **From Australia: we are sorry not to have brought you numbers 1 and 2 of this superb series. The lines covered here are Rio Turbio, Saalfeld, Kimberley, the Coal Road (private lines in NSW) and Jingpeng. Magnificent views of late 20th and early 21st century steam at work.

An Irish railway pictorial.Kennedy, M.Very large, 96 pages, album. Soft back. **The LMS inherited from the MR the Belfast & Northern Counties Railway and the Donegal Railways; from the LNWR the Dundalk, Newry & Greenore Railway and various shipping interests. The book also covers road services, air services, the effects of the war and much else.

S W A Newton and the Great Central Railway.Boyd-Hope & Sargent.Large landscape, 215 pages, album with 8 page introduction, hard back. **This book re-treads the ground classically covered by L T C Rolt in The Making Of A Railway, where Newton's pictures of the construction of the Great Central London Extension were first published. Many of the photographs appear in both books and Rolt's work appears in the list of sources consulted, it is regrettable that the authors were unable to recall the correct spelling of his name. However, during his GC travels, Newton also photographed scenes of day to day life in the surrounding towns and countryside and it is for these many extra pictures, full of interesting detail, that one might prefer this book to Rolt's.

Price:
£17.99

Raymond Williams' LMS Steam In The Thirties.
Ref: P1232

Boswell & Essery.Very large, 90 pages, album, hard back.

Price:
£19.95

Royal Visit To Crewe Works.
Ref: P2072

An album of photographs edited by Edward Talbot.Talbot.Large, 48 pages, splendid photos, soft back. **A lucky survival of a souvenir album from a royal visit in 1913. The author notes: The photographs give a glimpse of life in England before the Great War; of the respect accorded to the royal family and of the enormous effort expended to make the visit a great success; of the working conditions of industry; of the interior of steel works, foundries, forges and machine shops; of the organisation of the works of a great railway and of engineering in the age of coal.

-Very large, 104 page colour album, hard back. **Superb photos of preserved steam at work by top photographers. "In 1965 if you wanted to photograph a pristine Jubilee you had to clean it yourself...".

The South Western main line through Hampshire in the 1950s.Kimber.Large landscape, 64-page album, soft back. **Photographs taken by the compiler's father, and other photographers, arranged one or two to a page, and captioned.

Price:
£10.00

Staffordshire Railway Stations.
Ref: P0526

On old picture postcards.Lewis.Medium, 36 pages, album. Soft back. *"A selection of picture postcards featuring scenes from the last century, with informative captions."

Price:
£3.50

Stations From The Air.
Ref: P2801

Smith.Large, square, 158 pages colour album, glazed boards. **Photos taken from aircraft win hands-down over satellite images - because they are angled rather than straight down you see frontages rather than just roofs. These are all recent shots, mostly of stations (a selection of about 130, mostly large), but including some depots and notable bridges. Each location gets a short history and description plus opening date, number of platforms and annual passenger numbers with ranking, 2004-2009.

Price:
£14.99

Steam Across The Northern Fells.
Ref: P1538

Welch, M S.Large, landscape, 80 page colour album. Glazed boards.

Price:
£14.95

Steam In Mid Wales.
Ref: P1826

Hale, M.Very large album, 284 photos on about 120 unnumbered pages, some maps, hard back. **A chronicle of the later years of steam. Includes much lineside detail.

Price:
£25.00

Steam In The Scottish Landscape.
Ref: P2679

Welch.Large square, 112 page colour album, glazed boards. **A fine collection of period colour from north of the border.

Shackcloth.Large, approximately 80 pages, album, soft back. *Mainly trains, but includes some townscapes, buses etc. Days Of Steam series No 1.

Price:
£12.99

West Yorkshire Coalfield.
Ref: P1893

Goodchild, J.Medium, 128 page album with many interesting period photographs. Soft back.

Price:
£11.99

Working Wagons. Volume 3.
Ref: P1033

A pictorial review of freight stock on the BR system. Volume 3. 1980 - 1984.Larkin, D.Very large, 96 pages, pictorial, soft back. **Third and penultimate book in the author's pictorial review of freight stock on the BR system between 1968 and 1991. The photos are from the author's own collection.

Price:
£12.95

Working Wagons. Volume 4.
Ref: P1391

A pictorial review of freight stock on the BR system. Volume 4. 1985 - 1992.Larkin, D.Very large, 96 pages, pictorial, soft back. **Fourth and last book in the author's pictorial review of freight stock on the BR system between 1968 and 1991. The photos are from the author's own collection.

Price:
£12.95

Yarmouth Train.
Ref: P2016

The railway at Gt Yarmouth and scenes on the lines to Norwich, Lowestoft, Melton Constable and Ipswich.White, M R.Medium landscape, 116 page album with historical introduction, some period colour, map. Soft back.